Lost Coastlines is a case in point: cosmopolitan college-town rock that's graduated to the big time … with barely a trace of a Texas accent.
College towns have cosmopolitan amenities (lectures, music, ethnic restaurants, libraries) but also an almost surreal degree of cultural cohesion — "ideologically inbred" communities where residents read, watch and vote for the same things, in the view of Bill Bishop, author of "The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart," published in May.
The mountains that surround Lanzhou and the deserts that cut through Gansu Province create an oasis for academic study that contrasts with the frenetic cities and colleges along China's cosmopolitan coast, explains Hu Bin, dean of the Lanzhou University's School of Information Science and Engineering.
The mountains that surround Lanzhou and the deserts that cut through Gansu Province create an oasis for academic study that contrasts with the frenetic cities and colleges along China's cosmopolitan coast, explains Hu Bin.
Not long after college, he married Ke Xiaoming, the cosmopolitan daughter of China's Ambassador to Britain.
Bartlett, who is forty-one years old, was born in England but moved to Penguin, Tasmania, as a baby; she fled the island for the more cosmopolitan precinct of Sydney after graduating from college, only to return in 2001.
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But these lines grew blurred as more Americans went to college and the nation became more cosmopolitan.
She did not go to college, see the world, or have cosmopolitan tastes.
True, if you listen to some apologists touting collegiate multiculturalism, you could be excused for assuming that any college was just about the most cosmopolitan place on earth.
